Genre :: Magical Realism (21 books)

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  #205

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  (3 Reviews)

  96 Points

  "When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along to and FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music..."

  

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  #218

  The Wanderer

  by Alain-Fournier

  (2 Reviews)

  92 Points

  "He appeared at our house on a Sunday in November 189...(Davison translation)"

  

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  #335

  The Bone People

  by Keri Hulme

  (2 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "He walks down the street."

  

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  #365

  A Wild Sheep Chase

  by Haruki Murakami

  (5 Reviews)

  58 Points

  "It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition."

  

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  #379

  The House of the Spirits

  by Isabel Allende

  (4 Reviews)

  54 Points

  "Barrabás came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy."

  

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  #416

  Petersburg

  by Andrei Bely

  (2 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "Your Excellencies, Your Lordships, Your Honors, Citizens!"

  

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  #419

  The Satanic Verses

  by Salman Rushdie

  (5 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

  

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  #448

  Haroun and the Sea of Stories

  by Salman Rushdie

  (4 Reviews)

  38 Points

  "There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name."

  

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  #481

  The Death of Artemio Cruz

  by Carlos Fuentes

  (2 Reviews)

  29 Points

  "I wake ... the touch of that cold object against my penis awakens me."

  

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  #511

  Little, Big

  by John Crowley

  (4 Reviews)

  23 Points

  "On a certain day in June, 19--, a young man was making his way on foot northward from the great City to a town or place called Edgewood, that he had been told of but had never visited."

  

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